Slide Into Debt Could Bring Wider Waistline
Less activity, 'comfort eating' might spur obesity, German study finds FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity rates may increase along with rising financial debt, German researchers suggest. In their study, Eva Munster and her colleagues at the University of Mainz tracked the w...Study Supports Wider Use of Statins
Data shows reduction in heart attacks, strokes among those without established heart disease TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- An analysis of studies supports a growing belief that guidelines for prescribing cholesterol-lowering statin drugs should be expanded to include healthy peo...New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views
When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same hi...Patient Temperature Management Systems Enjoying Wider Usage
LONDON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With issues around patient comfort gaining momentum, hospitals and healthcare decision makers are recognising the need to consider patients' relief and welfare. This is leading to a growing demand for patient temperature management systems, which are being used for ...MADIT-CRT Trial Meets Primary Endpoint
...ersity of Rochester Medical Center. "We are very encouraged by these initial positive results, and we are hopeful they will eventually lead to a wider population of heart failure patients being treated with CRT-D therapy," said Fred Colen, President, Boston Scientific CRM. "I would like to congratul...InnoCentive and Nature Publishing Group Announce Partnership to Facilitate Open Innovation
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...ning, the new device moves a single beam of protons in a sweeping or "scanning" motion, enabling the beam to reach deeper into the body and to cover a wider treatment area than the more commonly used scattering method. Until now the proton beam was "scattered" and flattened using round filters that limited...Direct Image Mid Field 30 Prism
Description:... The Mid Field 30° lens has a bi-concave design to provide a wider field of view with a 30 degree offset image....Peripheral nerve repair with fat precursor cells led to wider nerves and less muscle atrophy
Tampa, Fla. (June 16, 2009) To determine if guided fat (adipose) precursor cells (APCs) could improve nerve regeneration and functional recovery, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) used biodegradable nerve guides to transplant APCs into the injured peripheral nerves of laboratory r...Drug could improve pregnancy outcomes in wider range of women with insulin resistance
St. Louis, Sept. 6, 2007 Women who are obese, have type 2 diabetes or a family history of type 2 diabetes could one day have more successful pregnancies because of a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. This study, performed in mice, suggests that Metformin, the mos...Central targets may hinder wider waste management objectives
Government priorities can drive local waste partnerships towards the achievement of central targets and efficiency savings rather than wider sustainable waste management objectives, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows. Reducing levels of waste and disposing of it in...Transfusion expert urges wider use of filtered blood
Filtering white cells from donor blood before a transfusion is much safer for patients and long overdue as a national standard for all surgical procedures, according to University of Rochester researchers who present their analysis in the April journal, Transfusion. The practice of removing the w...Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
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...of the neck would restrict DC-SIGN to a few specific, spatial forms. Instead, the molecule's flexibility and adaptability allow it to recognize a much wider range of pathogens." ...RedPrairie to gain wider reach with acquisition
Milwaukee, Wis. RedPrairie Corporation has agreed to buy a global supply-chain management company, MARC Global Holdings Inc., extending its reach in the Asia Pacific region as well as the U.S. and Europe. The two firms are to begin combining operations in February and will reportedly have 738...Microparts interest group workshop
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...h client base and batch production at SynCo since our inception in 2000. Going forward, we look to supporting our clients in GMP production of an even wider range of novel biopharmaceuticals.' commented Pierre Warffemius, CEO of SynCo Bio Partners. SynCo's expansion in batch release capabilities is ...PROTEAN II xi Multi-Cell 2-D Conversion Kit from Bio-Rad
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